Actor and former ballet dancer Charlize Theron has joined the chorus of disapproval geared toward Timothée Chalamet over his remarks that appeared to disrespect performers of ballet and opera.
In an interview with the New York Times, Theron mentioned: “Oh, boy, I hope I run into him one day,” including: “That was a very reckless comment on two art forms that we need to lift up constantly because, yes, they do have a hard time. But in 10 years, AI is going to be able to do Timothée’s job, but it will not be able to replace a person on a stage dancing live.”
Theron, who studied as an adolescent on the Joffrey Ballet in New York earlier than a knee harm prevented her from persevering with with the artwork kind, additionally commented on the bodily value dancers pay. “It taught me to be tough. It’s borderline abusive. There were several times that I had blood infections from blisters that just never healed. And you don’t get a day off. I’m literally talking about bleeding through your shoes.”
Chalamet made the comments in February throughout a video dialog with fellow actor Matthew McConaughey, during which he mentioned: “I don’t want to be working in ballet or opera … Things where it’s like, ‘Hey, keep this thing alive, even though no one cares about this any more.’” High-profile figures together with Jamie Lee Curtis, Sam Taylor-Johnson, ballet star Misty Copeland, Eva Mendes and Helen Hunt have beforehand registered their disapproval of Chalamet’s remarks, whereas Italian film-maker and opera director Luca Guadagnino, who cast Chalamet in the 2017 film Call Me By Your Name, defended the actor, saying he didn’t “understand how one [single] comment can become a planetary polemic”.
In the interview, Theron additionally mentioned her childhood and teenage years in South Africa, together with her father’s loss of life after being shot by her mom in self-defence. Theron described her father as a “full-blown functioning drunk” and mentioned that her mom “sent me to a boarding school specifically because she wanted me to get out of the house”.
She described intimately the day of the taking pictures, when her father got here to their home in June 1991 in Benoni, close to Johannesburg, and tried to interrupt in. Theron mentioned: “He shot through the steel doors to get in, making it very clear that he was going to kill us … [My mother] came into my bedroom. The two of us were holding the door with our bodies because there wasn’t a lock on it. And he just stepped back and started shooting through the door. And this is the crazy thing: not one bullet hit us.”
Theron added: “He walked to the [gun] safe, and my mom pulled the door open … [and] she followed my father, who was by then opening the safe to get more weapons out, and she shot him.”
Theron’s mom Gerda was not prosecuted for the taking pictures, after South Africa’s attorney general ruled it was an act of self-defence. Theron mentioned: “The next morning she sent me to school. She was just like, We’re going to move on. Not necessarily the healthiest thing, but it worked for us.”
